How to Subscribe to the Import AI Newsletter

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Import AI is Jack Clark's newsletter about AI research. Issues combine commentary with summaries of recent work — for example, issue 476 (October 12, 2026) covers a new benchmark on intuitive visual reasoning, open-weight models, and AI in space. The newsletter describes itself as running "on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers," and it explicitly invites readers to support it by subscribing.

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